Kij Johnson focuses on writing experimental and speculative fiction. She is a three-time winner of the Nebula Award, and has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Crawford Awards for her speculative fiction. Her short-story collection, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, was published by Small Beer Press in 2012, who will be publishing her next novel, The River Bank, in late 2016. She also has two novels, The Fox Woman, and Fudoki, published by Tor Books. Prior to her academic career, she worked in New York publishing, comic books, role-playing and trading-card games, and in tech firms.

Research interests include experimental and formalist fiction; early science fiction and fantasy; animal narratives; 18th-century central-Asian history and natural science; and H. P. Lovecraft. This list changes often.